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Design is a "talent" the same way software development is a "talent". Some people may have natural abilities, but overall it is something to be practiced and studied if you want to get better at it.

CSS is just a programming language.

I am as talentless a designer as any of you but I stopped reaching to libraries and frameworks to solve my design issues, and started learning modern CSS and some basic design skills.

Lots of good books and web sites, and my personal preference is video courses through Lynda.com, which I get for free through my public library.



Which Lynda courses would you recommend taking for starters?


The key thing is to look for courses released, like, 2018 or later.

I started with Essential CSS as a refresher. If you don't know much about CSS it's a good start. https://www.lynda.com/CSS-tutorials/CSS-Essential-Training/5...

Now I'm watching Design Aesthetics for the Web https://www.lynda.com/Design-Techniques-tutorials/Design-Aes...

On the same topic as "you don't need frameworks to get jobs done", the next one I'm going to take is learning ES6, because modern browser-supported javascript isn't completely terrible anymore.


looks like someone didn't click the link


Sure I did - It's a bunch of tools, generators, and frameworks to hide behind instead of learning the fundamentals




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